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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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"Heaven's currency is friendship."
"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy."
"Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now."
"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."
"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell."
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"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
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